10 TV Shows Whose Cancellation Was Way Overdue

8. The Office

The Office Don't get me wrong, I loved The Office. For the first few years. And to be perfectly fair, even at the end it did provide the odd chuckle here and there. But after Steve Carrell left, I'll never understand why they didn't just let the poor thing die rather than keeping it on life support. Was anyone really clamoring for a version of The Office without Michael Scott, the undisputed star of the show? And I certainly didn't need to see Jim and Pam go from America's most adorable couple to those random boring people who are married with kids and just sort of hate their mediocre lives. They really should have given this show the ax years ago and let it go with some semblance of dignity, rather than just allowing sadistic viewers to watch its slow decline into irrelevance. Put simply, it's the prime example of why it's better to burn out than to fade away.
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Audrey Fox is an ex-film student, which means that she prefers to spend her days in the dark, watching movies and pondering the director's use of diegetic sound. She currently works as an entertainment writer, joyfully rambling about all things film and television related. Add her on Twitter at @audonamission and check out her film blog at 1001moviesandbeyond.com.